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Revelation 9

BBE 1
And at the sounding of the fifth angel I saw a star falling from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the great deep.
NIV 1
The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.
BBE 2
And he made the great deep open and a smoke went up from it, like the smoke of a great oven; and the sun and the air were made dark because of the smoke.
NIV 2
When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.
BBE 3
And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth; and power was given them, like the power of scorpions.
NIV 3
And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.
BBE 4
And they were ordered to do no damage to the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only to such men as have not the mark of God on their brows.
NIV 4
They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
BBE 5
And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion.
NIV 5
They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
BBE 6
And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.
NIV 6
During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
BBE 7
And the forms of the locusts were like horses made ready for war; and on their heads they had crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
NIV 7
The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.
BBE 8
And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
NIV 8
Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.
BBE 9
And they had breastplates like iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of carriages, like an army of horses rushing to the fight.
NIV 9
They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
BBE 10
And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months.
NIV 10
They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.
BBE 11
They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.
NIV 11
They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.
BBE 12
The first Trouble is past: see, there are still two Troubles to come.
NIV 12
The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
BBE 13
And at the sounding of the sixth angel a voice came to my ears from the horns of the gold altar which is before God,
NIV 13
The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is before God.
BBE 14
Saying to the sixth angel who had the horn, Make free the four angels who are chained at the great river Euphrates.
NIV 14
It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."
BBE 15
And the four angels were made free, who were ready for the hour and day and month and year, that they might put to death a third part of men.
NIV 15
And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
BBE 16
And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: the number of them came to my ears.
NIV 16
The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.
BBE 17
And so I saw the horses in the vision, and those who were seated on them, having breastplates of fire and glass and of burning stone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and a smell of burning.
NIV 17
The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.
BBE 18
By these evils a third part of men was put to death, by the fire, and the smoke, and the burning smell which came out of their mouths.
NIV 18
A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths.
BBE 19
For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails: because their tails are like snakes, and have heads, and with them they give wounds.
NIV 19
The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
BBE 20
And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:
NIV 20
The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood--idols that cannot see or hear or walk.
BBE 21
And they had no regret for putting men to death, or for their use of secret arts, or for the evil desires of the flesh, or for taking the property of others.
NIV 21
Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

New International Version

Revelation 9

NIV 1
The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.
NIV 2
When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.
NIV 3
And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.
NIV 4
They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
NIV 5
They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
NIV 6
During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
NIV 7
The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.
NIV 8
Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.
NIV 9
They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
NIV 10
They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.
NIV 11
They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.
NIV 12
The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
NIV 13
The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is before God.
NIV 14
It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."
NIV 15
And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
NIV 16
The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.
NIV 17
The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.
NIV 18
A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths.
NIV 19
The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
NIV 20
The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood--idols that cannot see or hear or walk.
NIV 21
Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.